integra type r #22? am i missing something here? what's so special about this car?

At its time it had one of the best chassis and handling characteristics for a FWD car. It also produced over 100HP per 1L displacement and revved to 8k using a NA engine, which I think was only seen in the Modena up to that point. (from memory - but someone correct me if I am wrong).

Being a fan of Honda engines, I requested that they consider building for the F1 a 4.5 liter V10 or V12. I asked, I tried to persuade them, but in the end could not convince them to do it, and the McLaren F1 ended up with a BMW engine.

Being a fan of Honda engines, I requested that they consider building for the F1 a 4.5 liter V10 or V12. I asked, I tried to persuade them, but in the end could not convince them to do it, and the McLaren F1 ended up with a BMW engine.

Z4 M is way more of a drivers car than a M3 so its weird its not on the list.

Some awesome cars on the list and some just make me think wtf?

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how the hell is a GT-R rated as a drivers car.......its a driving computer which happens to have a driver as a passenger.

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and damn....no e36 M3....fail

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Ariel Atom isnt in the top 10......???

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Wow, that's a lot of very cool cars!

+1...and at the same time, alot of totally undeserving cars on that list as well...

...it appears we have to take yet another automotive review with a basketball-sized grain of salt . and the fact that they even considered the e60 M5 a "driver's car" and excluded so many other far more capable and driver-involving cars is laughable. just b/c you give a boat 500hp doesn't demote it from "boat" status. oh well...even magazine editors are entitled to opinions i suppose.

My impression is that the list could instead be titled "our favorite cars that we and other car writers drool over." Some for their directness, some for their power, some for their uniqueness, like the R26.R. For the most part, it's a list of pretty cool cars, though.

...it appears we have to take yet another automotive review with a basketball-sized grain of salt . and the fact that they even considered the e60 M5 a "driver's car" and excluded so many other far more capable and driver-involving cars is laughable. just b/c you give a boat 500hp doesn't demote it from "boat" status. oh well...even magazine editors are entitled to opinions i suppose.

There is a lot more to making the critiria of a driver's car than simply being quick, handle great, etc, etc, etc.

Each car on this list is there for a number of reasons, maybe emotional, how it makes you feel while driving (i.e MX5) or simply for the way the thing does what it does (i.e.GTR).

I totally 'get it' with a lot on this list, though at the same time I can fully understand why so many of you are not.

agreed. that being said though, they should have just titled the article "top 100 pretty cool cars" instead of "top 100 driver's cars of all time." at least they might have retained some credibility as writers and editors that way...b/c i see several cars on that list that, were this a true list ranking driver's cars, wouldn't even be in the top 500.